14.10.2022
Tackling structural and institutional racism in the EU
Structural racism and discrimination against racialized groups persist in the EU. A recently published EU Parliament’s draft report sets out ways to address persistent problems, and calls on the EU institutions to lead by example.
The draft report strongly condemns that minorities and migrants, including LGBTQI persons, face structural racism, discrimination, hate, inequalities, difficulties in accessing the justice system, and violence by the police. It also regrets that 14 years from the adoption of the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, several EU countries have not yet properly implemented it, and calls for the criminalisation of racist hate crime and hate speech.
The text that was approved on Monday by the Committee on Civil Liberties with 48 votes in favour, 6 against, and 3 abstentions, calls, among other points:- for the adoption of the Anti-Discrimination Directive, which has been blocked since 2008;
- for the proper implementation of the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives;
- for an extension of the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crimes;
- for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, for a ban on gender-based violence under EU law, and for the criminalisation of forced sterilisation and abortion across all EU countries; and
- for the adoption of appropriate internal strategies by the EU institutions, such as the EP diversity strategy and its roadmap for 2022-2024.
The report is expected to be tabled in Parliament’s plenary sessions in November.
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